Duke University researchers have discovered that machine learning algorithms can gain new degrees of transparency and insight into the properties of materials after teaching them…
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New research has revealed that the brain and testes appear to be extremely adaptable to the use of many different kinds of genetic code to…
Leaded gasoline calculated to have stolen more than 800 million cumulative IQ points since the 1940s. In 1923, lead was first added to gasoline to…
Researchers have discovered that a sponge’s structure mimics that of soil to produce an environment more hospitable to microbial diversity than most laboratory equipment. Environmental…
Rotating flashing lights represent the concept of spin. Leveraging electron spin adds a new dimension to data encoding. Remember flip-phones? Our smartphones may one day…
Preventing Pandemics Costs Far Less Than Controlling Them – “Prevention Really Is the Best Medicine”
Tens of billions spent on habitat and surveillance would avoid trillions of annual costs. We can pay now or pay far more later. That’s the…
This cross-section of a mouse heart (red) shows how well the gene therapy delivered sodium ion channel genes (cyan) to the target heart cells after…
Theory and simulations reveal why seemingly weak effects sometimes play a strong role in how particles move through the air close to the Earth’s surface.…
Products popular among glasses-wearers during masked pandemic. The anti-fogging sprays and cloths many people use to prevent condensation on their eyeglasses when wearing a mask…
Cooperation and aggression. Meerkats are showing us that one may not be possible without the other. In a study appearing this week in the journal…
[embedded content]Researchers are working on new ways to cure COVID-19First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused…
Duke professor becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI. Whether preventing explosions on electrical grids, spotting patterns among past…
Multicenter study finds that oxytocin was safe, but ineffective at boosting social skills among children with autism. Oxytocin, a naturally occurring hormone that acts as…
Fossils of the key groups used to unveil the Eocene-Oligocene extinction in Africa with primates on the left, the carnivorous hyaenodont, upper right, rodent, lower…
New research predicts that the loss of 108 threatened primates could doom an additional 176 parasite species to extinction, because they have no other suitable…
In the fight against viruses, antibodies have the potential to either block infection or enable infection and make the disease worse, leading to concern about…
This point-of-care device uses the physics of fluids to draw a few drops of blood and biomedical lubricant through its components to test for COVID-19…
A surveillance study by Duke Global Health found a dog coronovirus in a human patient. Researchers have discovered a new coronavirus, found in a child…